This morning Rick Bonnell (Sports writer for the Charlotte Observer) had a brief interview with Michael Jordan and asked him a few questions concerning the Charlotte Bobcats and their direction for the 2012-13 season. They addressed everything from Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and how he reminded Jordan of Scottie Pippen, to player’s interactions with Mike Dunlap, and his aspirations for Gerald Henderson as a team leader.

One question the caught the attention of a Bring Back The Buzz advocate was…

–He said the franchise is open to a nickname switch should New Orleans Hornets owner Tom Benson follow through on changing that team’s name. Some fans want the Hornets name and logo back in Charlotte.

We at Bring Back the Buzz immediately posted the news on our multiple social media sites. We were ecstatic to finally have some recent news concerning the re-brand, especially from the Big Man himself. Jordan had been understandably apprehensive about the topic in the past because the New Orleans re-brand had not been “technically” announced. We guess Tom Benson had mentioned the     re-brand one too many times last night and Jordan wanted to calm the Beelievers down.Bring Back The Buzz “guys” tend to make “Little things = big news, and they hang on @rick_bonnell’s every word”. This being said we wanted to give it to the people straight. And let the people decide whether or not they want to get excited! BECAUSE WE SURE AS HELL ARE!!!!

http://blogs.charlotte.com/inside_the_nba/2012/11/michael-jordan-on-owning-the-charlotte-bobcats-im-in-it-for-the-long-haul.html

First off we would like to say thank you to all the people who submitted pictures for the contest. However, the best one we received was from former Carolina Panther’s defensive end Al Wallace dressed up as Grandmama! Still not sure how he fit those guns in that cardigan

We said they were coming and now they are finally here! The Brand New Official “Bring Back the Buzz” shirts!! They will be on sale for the first time this Friday at our Party downtown at Town Tavern for only 12$!!!!

If you haven’t already noticed, take a look at the Bring Back The Buzz logo and you will see that the Large B is split in two and in doing so it creates the #13. This is because of Bobby Phills.

A huge area of concern for us over this whole process has been the fact that we have discussed with dozens of New Orlean’s Hornets fans and they have absolutely no idea why the number 13 hangs in their rafters and who this Bobby Phills guy is.

Bobby played with the Hornets in Charlotte from 1997-2000 alongside the likes of Wesley, Mashburn, Brown, Rice, Mason, Divac and others. Sadly, On January 12, 2000, while a member of the Charlotte Hornets, Phills was killed in an automobile accident.

Following this was one of the saddest and proudest moments as a Hornets fan. We watched as Bobby’s son touched his dad’s jersey one last time before it was raised into the rafters. Bobby Phills was the first Hornet to ever have his jersey retired. At the same time the Charlotte community came together and helped support the Phills family through this rough time. Kendall (Bobby’s wife) was present at every Charlotte Hornets game until they left. I truly hope the Bobcat’s organization is in touch with the Phills family.

Our goal after we get the name back from New Orleans is to Get Bobby Phills’ jersey back in Charlotte where it belongs.

Attention Bees and Ghouls!

Anyone who knows Evan and Scotty BringBackTheBuzz knows that when they were growing up the Old Hivestead was always a buzzing place on Halloween! In honor of her favorite holiday, our very ownMAMABUZZ has announced her first ever Halloween HORNETSCHARACTER costume contest!!!

This isn’t about the Swag this time folks – it’s about the Characters that make up our great HORNETS HISTORY!!!

So get your Grandmamma costume out of mothballs and your George Shinn mask out of the attic and send us your pics! and we’ll post them all over (FB,TWITTER,INSTAGREAM. And OUR BLOG) Remember to think outside the hive folks – how about a ref from the first home game? The entire starting lineup?  B**CAT Zombees?  James K Flynn?  (extra point if you ARE James K)!  Do you think you’re a doppelganger for the Buzz Boyz or John Morgan? – give it your best shot!  BEE CREATIVE!!!!!!!!

MAMABUZZ will announce her favorite on Tuesday, October 30. The winner will be invited to MAMA and PAPA BUZZ’ Hivestead on Halloween night to receive aHornets gifts basket including a pair of B**Cats tickest and have their picture taken with the BUZZ family. That picture will be our cover photo on the new BRINGBACKTHEBUZZ FACEBOOK page for November! Here’s your chance to see the birthplace of BringBackThe Buzz!

Come on all you beelievers out there – put your Hornets snap-back thinking caps on and get buzzy!!!

You can also send pics to bringbackthebuzz@yahoo.com

Discover Charlotte Documentary Project by Bobby Simmons

“Discover Charlotte” is an in-depth exploration & identification of the history and culture of Charlotte, NC.

Discover Charlotte will be interviewing “Bring Back the Buzz”‘s Scotty Kent along with the We…Beelieve”‘s John Morgan tonight at 7pm  as part of a documentary that will be taking an deep look into Charlotte and what makes it unique.

Click on the link below to watch the video that explains the Documentary.

Discover Charlotte Documentary Project

http://www.facebook.com/BringBackTheBuzz

Good Morning! Bring Back the Buzz has decided to go into the Facebook world and reach an even wider audience in order to obtain our ultimate goal of getting this Hornets name back to Charlotte. We are still working with John Morgan and the We Beelieve: Charlotte…take back your Hornets! campaign under the umbrella of “Charlotte Hornets 2.0”. Now while we have reached almost 2,000 followers on Twitter, over 20,000 hits on our blog and more than double that to www.bringbackthebuzz.com….Twitter had become our main outlet and was a bit confining.

Last night, Bring Back the Buzz had a meeting downtown to work on our plan for the upcoming season and one of the major issues was that we ourselves did not have a Facebook page. We have been working in unison with John Morgan from the We Beelieve: Charlotte…take back your Hornets and will continue to do so under the umbrella of “Charlotte Hornets 2.0”.

As the NBA season gets ready to begin here in the next few weeks Bring Back the Buzz along with We Beelieve will be putting in everything we have to make sure this is the last season OUR NBA team has the name Bobcats!

To Make it Simple…..

Bring Back the Buzz + We Beelieve = Charlotte Hornets 2.0!

Five years after the Charlotte Coliseum was imploded, something new is taking shape on the land where the Hornets used to play.

Oxford Properties of Atlanta will break ground in the next two weeks on what will be a three building, 282-unit apartment complex. Oxford bought the property from Pope & Land, which plans to develop the rest of the property into shops, offices and more places for people to live.

“We came to Charlotte with a vision,” said Pope & Land VP Mason Zimmerman. The entire first phase of the project, called City Park, was already under contract in 2007, but the rezoning took longer than the developer thought, and when the site was finally ready, the recession was in full swing.

“This is the resurrection,” said Zimmerman. The apartments, he said, should be finished next year.